Change of political cycle in the United Kingdom after fourteen years of Conservative governments. Keir Starmer's Labour Party has achieved a resounding victory in Thursday's general election. With the results from two constituencies still to be announced, Labour has secured 412 seats, which comfortably surpasses the threshold for an absolute majority, set at 326. The party led by Starmer since spring 2020 has thus brought about a spectacular turnaround in the figures from the last election, held in 2019 (202 MPs), at the peak of Boris Johnson's popularity. Starmer has thus brought about a spectacular turnaround in the figures from the last election, held in 2019 (202 MPs), at the peak of Boris Johnson's popularity.

No time to lose. The transfer of power in the United Kingdom is immediate. At five in the morning this Friday, the Labour Party managed to surpass the threshold of an absolute majority (326 seats; it has obtained 412, with the result of two constituencies yet to be known), and seven and a half hours later, Keir Starmer, accompanied by his wife, Victoria, entered Downing Street after having received the commission from King Charles III to form a new executive, and having thus become the 58th premier in the country's history.

The Brexit wound continues to bleed the British Labour Party, and by extension, the United Kingdom. The crisis that opened up in Keir Starmer's government last week following the electoral catastrophe of May 7 –and the growing internal pressure to oust him– has once again placed membership of the European Union at the center of the debate, as the tenth anniversary of the referendum approaches on June 23.

British politics has been advancing for decades like a Shakespearean comedy of errors: the characters change, but the pattern repeats. Long before Brexit, which will be a decade next month, Westminster was already chaining together cycles of confusion, miscalculated maneuvers, and governments trapped in their own mistakes. From 1974 –with two general elections, the fall of the conservative government, the winter of discontent, and the unions on war footing–, to the parliaments without an absolute majority in the 21st century, passing through the illegal suspension of Parliament in 2019, the British system has shown a recurring fragility that contrasts with an image of impeccable solidity.

has been very clear. At this point, then, it is very difficult to say if the revolt of the According to various British press reports, the head of the Interior Ministry, Shabana Mahmood, and the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, have made it clear in recent hours that sustaining his leadership is impossible. The Justice Minister and number two in the executive, David Lammy, and the Defence Minister, John Healey, would also have spoken about his future. But the prime minister has been very clear. At this point, then, it is very difficult to say if the revolt of the backbench MPs will succeed.

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Keir Starmer is living on borrowed time. He doesn't know it yet, he doesn't want to admit it, and he intends to fight with all his might, but the result of Thursday's local elections in England, along with those in the national Parliaments of Scotland and Wales, have left the British prime minister mortally wounded. As a defibrillator and last resort to avoid the inevitable, Starmer, who has been practically rudderless since he won the elections, less than two years ago, has dusted off two of the old glories of New Labour.

The political crisis surrounding Keir Starmer over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to Washington in December 2024 has worsened this week, after Olly Robbins' appearance in Parliament has revealed numerous contradictions in the process followed. The discrepancies between Downing Street's account and the testimony of who until last week was the highest-ranking Foreign Office official responsible for overseeing the designation, once again place the prime minister's judgment at the center of the controversy, and leave him in a very compromised position.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer woke up this Friday morning with a new headacheAnother factor will put more pressure on an already weakened leadership. Overtaken by the Green Party, Labour suffered a catastrophic result in the by-election held this Thursday in the Gorton and Denton district, a traditional Labour stronghold in south Manchester. Two years ago, in the July 2024 elections, he Labour She achieved 50.8% of the vote. Yesterday, she plummeted to exactly half that: 25.4%, relegating her to third place, even behind Nigel Farage's Reform Party.

Like in the old days of Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz TrussThe feeling of chaos returned to Downing Street this Monday following the impact of the Jeffrey Epstein papers scandal and the continuous political errors of premier, Keir Starmer, despite his overwhelming majority in the Commons. In just a few hours, the Prime Minister has gone from being almost doomed to receiving the support of all his ministers and, for the moment, salvaging his leadership.

Keir Starmer is fighting for his political survival. The shockwave of Epstein case ha explosion in the heart of Westminster this week And in a speech in south London this Thursday, premier He has apologized to the victims of the pedophile for appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington in early 2025. The appointment came when there was already ample evidence that this stalwart of British politics maintained his friendship with the financier, even after his 2009 conviction for prostitution.

The Epstein bomb has erupted with full force in the face of Keir Starmer's Labour government. The publication, last Friday, of more than three million documents from the pedophile A US Department of Justice investigation has revealed that Peter Mandelson, a member of the House of Lords and until last September the British ambassador to Washington, shared confidential government information with the confessed pedophile in 2009. This occurred during his time as Gordon Brown's Minister of Business, and de facto, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The political scandal in the United Kingdom is enormous and the damage to the premier It comes at a time of great political weakness.

Keir Starmer arrives in China in the next few hours, on the first trip of a premier British Prime Minister since 2018, with the aim of reviving political and economic relations with Beijing after a long period of diplomatic strain. In addition to Beijing, Starmer will also visit Shanghai and, briefly, Japan. Downing Street's diplomatic offensive comes eleven days after the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney...also breaking years of silence with Xi Jinping, established a preliminary trade agreement, considered historic.

Tensions between Denmark and the United States continue to escalate. Following Donald Trump's repeated threats to invade Greenland, the Danish military increased its presence in the territory on Monday, according to Reuters. The Danish military says a plane will land Monday night in Kangerlussuaq—a settlement in western Greenland—and that this represents a "substantial contribution" of troops. Several European allies have already announced the deployment of more soldiers to Greenland and intend for the mission to have NATO support. But the Atlantic Alliance is under scrutiny. de facto by the United States, and therefore it is difficult to imagine a mission by the military entity aimed at defending itself against a potential US aggression. However, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who remains very close to the interests of the White House, expressed hope for a coordinated increase in the allies' military presence in the Arctic. "I hope we can establish a framework to carry this out," said the former Dutch Prime Minister. Beyond these words, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas; the Danish Minister of Defense, Troels Lund Poulsen; and the Greenlandic Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Motzfeld, appear to have gained nothing further from their meeting with Rutte this Monday in Brussels. Nevertheless, Kallas wanted to make it clear in a message on social media that the European allies do not intend to back down in the face of Trump's threats. "We have no interest in picking a fight, but we will stand firm in our position," the EU's foreign policy chief tweeted. It's worth remembering that it was following a military exercise on the island led by Danish troops, in which several militaries participated, that Trump threatened the eight participating states—including Germany, France, and the UK—with additional 10% tariffs starting next month. Starmer also says enough is enough.

Downing Street's appeasement of Trump has thus far proven not only a failure but also a humiliation. Keir Starmer believed that by fawning over the US president, even making him appear King Charles III almost like a servant For his enjoyment, it might contain the Republican's most authoritarian instincts. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued an unequivocal warning to Elon Musk on Monday night: if Musk is unable to control his artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, the British government will do so "swiftly" and with the full force of the law. "If you profit from harm and abuse, you lose the right to self-regulate," he said. premier during a meeting with the Labour group in the House of Commons. It is, so far, Downing Street's toughest clash with the tycoon, who immediately accused London, via his social media, of "looking for any excuse" to exercise censorship.

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Over the past few weeks, a series of orders and counter-orders has surrounded the drafting of Keir Starmer's government's new budget for the period from April 2026 to March 2027. Announcements or hints of tax increases have been abruptly withdrawn following the anger of government MPs.

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The government of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer will present a package of measures this Monday that tightens immigration policies, similar to those already implemented by the Danish Social Democratic government. The aim is to discourage illegal immigration by boat across the English Channel, through which an estimated 40,000 people enter each year, and also to increase the time required to obtain permanent residency from the current 5 years to 20. The mastermind behind the operation is the Pakistani Minister and a contender to succeed Starmer in Downing Street should he fall before the end of his term.

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Since he arrived in government sixteen months agoLabour is trying to combat illegal immigration arriving via the English Channel as if it were the magic formula that will solve all its problems, which are many. Following the cabinet reshuffle in September, forced by the fall from grace of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, he premier Keir Starmer—increasingly unpopular and under increasing pressure within his own party—appointed Shabana Mahmood, the daughter of immigrants and considered a tough negotiator on such sensitive issues as border security and immigration, as Minister of the Interior. Two months later, Mahmood's time has come to live up to her reputation. This Monday, she will present a series of legal measures in Parliament aimed at curbing the arrival of migrant boats, the most severe in decades. Incidentally, she will also begin laying the groundwork for her aspirations to succeed Starmer.She is not the only member of the government who wants the leadership—, whom analysts do not foresee having a political future beyond May. The elections in Scotland, Wales, and parts of England could spell his downfall, if the polls prove accurate and the Reform Party of xenophobe Nigel Farage She gets the lion's share.

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The British public's trust in Downing Street's actions is going down the drain. Meanwhile, citizens across the islands fear an income tax hike in just two weeks that would betray... one of Labour's key election promisesAnd while this could cause a political earthquake, another highly sensitive issue, the NHS, the National Health Service, is still struggling to recover and significantly reduce waiting lists. In July, 7.41 million patients, only 200,000 fewer than a year earlier, were still waiting for treatment. The five-day strike that resident doctors in English hospitals—both in emergency and non-emergency care—are starting this Friday will not improve the situation either. And one of the consequences of these delays is that last year, more than half a million residents of the islands (523,000, according to the Office for National Statistics) traveled abroad for medical treatment. This figure represents a 50.1% increase in just two years.

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The meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, held this Friday in London and chaired by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, served little more than to showcase the unity of European and Western allies in their support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. But it also exposed, once again, the limitations of the alliance as long as the United States fails to fully engage and former President Donald Trump continues to show very contradictory signs on how to approach the relationship with Vladimir Putin.

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